The Inverse team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of PacketFence v11. This is a major release with new features, enhancements and bug fixes. This release is considered ready for production use and upgrading from previous versions is strongly advised. What is PacketFence? PacketFence is a fully supported, trusted, Free and Open Source Network Access Control (NAC) solution. Boasting an impressive feature set, PacketFence can be used to effectively secure small to very large heterogeneous networks.
Among the features provided by PacketFence, there are: powerful BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) capabilities multiple enforcement methods including Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and hotspot-style built-in network behaviour anomaly detection state-of-the art devices identification with Fingerbank compliance checks for endpoints present on your network integration with various vulnerability scanners, intrusion detection solutions, security agents and firewalls bandwidth accounting for all devices A complete overview of the solution is available from the official website: https://packetfence.org/about.html Changes Since Previous Release New Features Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and Debian 11 support Microsoft Azure AD authentication and authorization support (#6380) Google Workspace integration for LDAP and Chromebooks Automation of upgrades from 10.3 and above (#6438) Forwarding support for audit logs stored in database Enhancements Microsoft Intune SCEP support (#6360) Venom inline L3 (PR#6266) Massively improved web admin performance LDAP source now supports client certificates AirWatch SCEP documentation Rewrite the username of the request from RADIUS preProcess filter (#6293) Upgrade to golang 1.16.3 (#6343) pfpki: configure OCSP to listen on specific interfaces (#5825) Get maintenance patches through package manager (#6378) Adjust Intune integration to support pagination of the managed devices (#6135) Add an option to force the vip as the default gateway on layer2 registration network (#6406) Firewall SSO is tenant aware (#6384) Added conditions on owner information in the RADIUS filters (#6324) CLI access support for Avaya Switches (#6398) Authorize a MAC address on all APs of the switch group when using the Unifi module (#6134) Macro documentation for filter engine (#6392) Expose the source directory of documentation from Caddy (#6315) Audit successful admin login in the admin audit log. (#6345) Allow users to resend the SMS pin Improve the speed of retrieving switches (#6321) Bug Fixes Configurator sets valid_from field to current time in place of 1970-01-01 00:00:00 Support switch_group in advanced filters (#6379) Authentication rule condition basedn matching does not work (Authentication rule condition basedn matching does not work #6402) Filter netdata incoming connection (#6303) CLI switch access for Avaya ERS Switches (#6399) Avoid duplicate log entries "User <username> has authenticated on the portal" Backup DB using MariaDB-backup does not work on standalone installations (#6424) Normalize connection_sub_type to use the numeric value (#6326) Expired switches for all tenants (#6024) See https://github.com/inverse-inc/packetfence/compare/v10.3.0...v11.0.0 for the complete change log. See the Upgrade guide for notes about upgrading: https://packetfence.org/doc/PacketFence_Upgrade_Guide.html Getting PacketFence PacketFence is free software and is distributed under the GNU GPL. As such, you are free to download and try it by either getting the new release or by getting the sources: https://packetfence.org/download.html Documentation about the installation and configuration of PacketFence is also available: https://packetfence.org/support/index.html#/documentation How Can I Help? PacketFence is a collaborative effort in order to create the best Free and Open Source NAC solution. There are multiple ways you can contribute to the project: Documentation reviews, enhancements and translations Feature requests or by sharing your ideas Participate in the discussion on mailing lists (https://packetfence.org/support/index.html#/community) Patches for bugs or enhancements Provide new translations of remediation pages Getting Support For any questions, do not hesitate to contact us by writing to supp...@inverse.ca You can also fill our online form (https://inverse.ca/#contact) and a representative from Inverse will contact you. Inverse offers professional services to organizations willing to secure their wired and wireless networks with the PacketFence solution.
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